megastructures

  1. Michel Van

    Unbuilt Architecture and City Plans

    that a Novum in this Forum we talk allot about Aircraft, but not much about Airports Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport was original planed as Aéroport de Paris Nord in 1966 with 4 runways of 4000 meter length and 6 big Terminals like Terimal One, but with 6 floor multi-storey car park for 4000...
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    • 20th century architecture arcology city cyberpunk early 21st century floating arcologies floating city futuristic concepts megastructures paper architecture space age space colonies unbuilt buildings
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  2. Grey Havoc

    Grand Stade Hassan II

    ORIGINAL CAPTION: The planned Grand Stade Hassan II in Casablanca will have a capacity of 115,000 and would be one of the most high spec sporting venues on the planet CREDIT: CHP/Populous...
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    • 2025 2028 2030 early 2030s early 21st century fifa world cup 2030 kingdom of morocco kingdom of spain late 2020s megastructures oualalou + choi populous portugal portuguese republic royal moroccan football federation soccer stadium tarik oualalou architecte yalla vamos 2030
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    • Forum: The Bar
  3. Grey Havoc

    Neom

    I'm pretty sure we had a topic on this already, but it has gone MIA. https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-crown-princes-vision-for-neom-a-desert-city-state-tests-his-builders-11619870401 A story on it from 2019 (the project was first unveiled in 2017)...
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    • 2010s 2017 2020s 21st century city city-state crown prince mohammed bin salman cyberpunk megacity megastructures saudia arabia
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    • Forum: The Bar
  4. Avimimus

    Breitspurbahn three metre gauge railway

    I'm putting this here under the thin justification that some of the cars were to be defensively armed, there were plans to transport small warships with it, and it could fill a logistics role similar to the Reichsautobahnen. However, I really just wanted a thread somewhere to discuss this. Some...
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    • deutsche reichsbahn grossdeutschland megastructures nazi germany pre-world war ii railways reichsspurbahn third reich train unbuilt buildings wehrmacht world war ii
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    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  5. Grey Havoc

    The ultimate 'Flak Tower'?

    IMAGE CREDIT: Tales of Future Past/Future War http://davidszondy.com/future/war/Mile%20Tower.htm Just trying to build the thing would have been a nightmare....
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